My experience isn't quite as long as your's, but I've not seen any president
act as inappropriately as Mr. Trump does, since I can remember presidential
speeches and I remember FDR's fireside chats.
Miriam
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From: blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
<blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of R. E. Driscoll Sr
Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2018 10:33 PM
To: blind-democracy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [blind-democracy] Re: 330,000+ Sign Petition Calling on White House
Press Corps to 'Stand Up and Fight Back' After Acosta Blacklisted
Is there, somewhere out there, a Presidential Behavior Code? I need help in
view of my existing experience with our presidents since 1943.
Richard Driscoll
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On Nov 8, 2018, at 7:40 PM, Carl Jarvis <carjar82@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Donald Trump is making a mockery out of the Press. If the Press can't
find the intestinal fortitude to demand respect from the president,
then each time Donald Trump speaks, or any time his name is mentioned,
massive calls need to go to the news outlets demanding that they
refuse to give him media time.
Grow up Donald Trump, and if you can't behave like a president, then
at least shut your mealy mouth.
Carl Jarvis
On 11/8/18, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
330,000+ Sign Petition Calling on White House Press Corps to 'Stand
Up and Fight Back' After Acosta Blacklisted "The rest of the White
House Press Corps will line up in solidarity-and either refuse to
participate in White House press events or only ask questions on
behalf of the banned reporter/outlet until the ban is lifted."
by
Jon Queally, staff writer
CNN's Jim Acosta reports ahead of White House Press Secretary Sean
Spicer's daily press briefing in the James Brady Press Briefing Room
at the White House January 23, 2017 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Chip
Somodevilla/Getty
Images)
An online petition is surging towards its goal of 350,000 signatures
on Thursday as it called on members of the White House Press
Association to stand in solidarity against the Trump adminstration's
decision to strip credentials from CNN report Jim Acosta.
"In response to a man who treats his Presidency as if it's a series
of a particularly bizarre reality-TV show, the entire White House
press corps should walk out." -British journalist Jane MerrickPosted
on MoveOn.org's platform, but coordinated by the watchdog group Media
Matters for America, the petition reads:
If Trump blacklists or bans one of you, the rest of you need to stand up.
Instead of ignoring Trump's bad behavior and going about your
business, close ranks and stand up for journalism. Don't keep talking
about what Trump wants to talk about. Stand up and fight back.
Amplify your colleague's inquiry or refuse to engage until he removes
that person/outlet from the blacklist.
As of this writing, 333,046 had signed the petition and the number
was steadily increasing.
"The White House Press Correspondents Association exists to advance
the interests of and protective the White House Press Corps and right
now, they freedom of the press is in jeopardy. They need to act,"
said Angelo Carusone, president of Media Matters for America, and
author of the petition. "Reporters need to make it a matter of policy
that if one of their members if blacklisted, that the rest of the
White House Press Corps will line up in solidarity-and either refuse
to participate in White House press events or only ask questions on
behalf of the banned reporter/outlet until the ban is lifted."
According to British political journalist Jane Merrick, in an op-ed
posted to CNN on Thursday:
Trump's decision to revoke Acosta's pass to the White House grounds
is an outrageous ramping up of his campaign against a questioning,
robust, and free media.
In response to a man who treats his Presidency as if it's a series of
a particularly bizarre reality-TV show, the entire White House press
corps should walk out. Deny him coverage. Take him off the air.
Cancel his series.
Leave him to rage into Twitter's echo chamber, which is all he deserves.
On Thursday morning, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee
Sanders was under fire for retweeting a doctored video of the
incident with Acosta at Wednesday's press briefing.
In a rebuke to the Trump administration over the suspension of
Acosta, PEN America on Wednesday night called the decision a "clear
attack on the First Amendment."
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